内容摘要：“If health care is seen as a right, not a privilege,” she said, “then you shouldn’t be able to just shut it down because you submitted paperwork and you put a notice on the front of your door.”

“If health care is seen as a right, not a privilege,” she said, “then you shouldn’t be able to just shut it down because you submitted paperwork and you put a notice on the front of your door.”

KENNEDY on March 28 during a speech in West Virginia to encourage restrictions to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: “Twenty years ago, there was no diabetes in China. Today 50% of the population is diabetic.”THE FACTS: Diabetes prevalence has gone up in China over the past two decades, driven by rising living standards, urbanization and an aging population. About 6.1% of the population had diabetes in 2001-2002, according to a

But that has only grown to to 12.4%, according to latest data included in aAP reporter Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report.The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after thehis Maryland doctors announced Tuesday.

Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20.

According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days. Faucette died Monday.NEW YORK (AP) — Testimony in the

began this week, opening a window into what prosecutors say was the sordid world of group sex, drugs and violence beneath the glittering, jet set persona cultivated by the Bad Boy Records founder.Much of the testimony was hard to watch. Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Cassie, recounted being beaten and pressured into degrading sexual performances with strangers.

Here are five key moments from the trial, which resumes Monday:Lawyer Teny Geragos took a